• Was born in 1980 in Yerevan, Armenia.

• 1998-2004 Studied at the Art Academy of Yerevan.

• Since 1997 has active presence at group exhibitions in Armenia and abroad.

• First solo exhibition has been in 2003 at the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art (“NPAK” in Armenian acronym).

• In 2000 received the “Best Work Representing Social Issues” Prize of the Constitutional Court of Armenia, at “NPAK”.

• In 2004 received “Best Video-Art” Youth Prize of “NPAK”.

• Lives and works in Yerevan, Armenia.

Since 2000, I have been doing a project related to the alternative cinema. There are already 6 films of which the last 3 are being presented now.

I take a film which is already considered a classic, and re-edit it so that only parts which are actually the classic sections are left. Put more simply, I try to re-act an already completed film by freeing it from the traditional limitations of genre and style. Somehow turning cinema into a personal autonomous art.

Here the important element is the static picture. In difference with the classic long panoramas, and “stretched” shots I try to focus attention on prohibited, “double-meaning” images. I believe the “collage aspect” of cinema is what makes it different from its predecessor the theater and that is why I bring this aspect to the foreground.

My see the origins of my art in the punk culture of the seventies. In some sense my “Stalker”, “Theodicy” and “J-L Godard” films are about the changes of impressions which have occurred at the end of the confrontation of capitalism and socialism.

To me this is the difference between impressions of my and my parents' generations. Not the conflict, but simply the difference. Basically it is about the attitude which is being developed in each individual about the government and victory, not about the love and belief, as it has been presented for centuries.